Slovenia

 
Pronunciation: /sləˈviːnɪə/
  • a country in SE Europe, formerly a constituent republic of Yugoslavia; population 2,005,700 (est. 2009); official language, Slovene; capital, Ljubljana.

Slovenia formed part of the Austrian empire and in 1919 was ceded to the kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (named Yugoslavia from 1929), of which it remained a constituent republic until it declared its independence in 1991